TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblogThoughts and experiences from an enterprise software architect. This is a personal weblog by Jorgen Thelin, a Senior Program Manager for Windows Live Identity Services at Microsoft in Redmond. The opinions expressed here represent my own views and not those of my current, prior or future employer(s).Halo 3 Day- September 25, 2007 The wait is over - it's Halo 3 day launch day today! I got my copy - did you get yours It's time to FINISH THE FIGHT! I expect there will be a lot of Out of Office auto-replies like this across Microsoft and Corporate America today: Tuesday 925 - Today is Halo 3 day, so I will be unavailable for most of the day, evening and night to "finish the fight" against the Covernant and Flood. Expect e-mail replies to be delayed during this time....http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2007/09/000486.html MS Research Tech Report - Niobe: A Practical Replication Protocol- September 4, 2007 MSR-TR-2007-112 - Niobe: A Practical Replication Protocol by John MacCormick; Chandramohan A. Thekkath; Marcus Jager; Kristof Roomp; Lidong Zhou http:research.microsoft.comresearchpubsview.aspxtr_id=1355 The task of consistently and reliably replicating data is fundamental in distributed systems, and numerous existing protocols are able to achieve such replication efficiently. When called on to build a large-scale enterprise storage system with built-in replication, we were therefore surprised..http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2007/09/000485.html |